ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,673, issued on June 24, was assigned to Daimler Truck AG (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

"Support apparatus for battery pack and electric truck" was invented by Naotatsu Kumagai (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support apparatus for a battery pack being mounted under side rails constituting a ladder frame of a vehicle and including a pair of side faces, the side faces facing outward in a vehicle width direction. The support apparatus has a battery-side bracket that includes an opposing face facing the side face and accommodates the battery pack and a frame-side bracket coupling the battery-side bracket to the sid...